Late last year when we wrote about Arthur Lee’s superb soul spin “Everybody’s Gotta Live,” we hadn’t yet heard Vindicator, the track’s 1972 mothership and Lee’s solo debut. Admittedly, we (I) naively assumed that Vindicator would be a record full of similar songs–an exploration of Lee’s R&B range that was largely neglected during his time [...]

(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

If icons of ’60s-era psychedelic rock were counted, Love probably wouldn’t be among them. Certainly, even casual music fans would recognize “Alone Again Or” and “Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale” (and to a [...]